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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,541, dated June 4, 1889. Application filed January 4, 1888. Serial No. 259,760. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

' Be it .known that I, PHILIP GENGEMBRE HUBERT, of the city and county of New York,

in the State of New York, have invented a opening in the slab or stand-top and into a discharge throat or pipe,'which is presented at said opening. This discharge throat or pipe may deliver the contents of the basin into a slop-pail placed below the slab or st-an dtop, or the throat or pipe may be formed by the upwardly-presented branch of.-a trap 'sur mounting the soil-pipe. I also in the example of my improvement provide beneath the slab or stand-top a balancing-platform, on which the pail is placed, and which, when the pail receives a determined volume of water less than will overflow the pail, descends by the weight of its contents, and thereby raises a stop-rod through the slab or stand-top and against the basin, so as to form a positive lock for preventing subsequent tilting of the basin until the pail has beeni'eniptied and replaced.

I also provide a spring catch or look, with which the platform automatically engages in descending, and which serves to lock the platform in its depressed position with the stoprod raised, to prevent the tilting of the basin until the pail has been emptied and returned.

The invention will be hereinafter particularly described, andpointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of a portion of a slab or wash-stand top and a basin and appurtenances embodying my invention, the contents of the basin being discharged into a pail placed beneath. Fig. 2 isa plan of the basin; and Fig. 3 is a section, similar to Fig. 1,'of a slab or stand-top and basin, the basin arranged to discharge directly into the trap upon a soilpipe.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures.

A designates the slab or stand-top, above which is placed the basin "B. The basin is pivoted at b, so that it may be swung into the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and as here represented the pivot 19 is supported and held by the heads of bolts a, which pass through the slab or top A. The basin has a discharge-nozzle B leading from its upper circumference, and which is curved in the shape of an arc concentric with the pivot b. In the slab Ais an opening a, and presented at this opening is a throat or pipe 0. This pipe or throat may have a flange 0, through which pass bolts or screws for securing it to the under side of the slab or stand-top A, and between the nozzle B and the throat or passage G, into which it moves, is an elastic packing d, which may consist of an india-rubber ring or washer secured in a rabbet d in the top of the slab A and around the opening a. This packing has its hole for the nozzle B slightly smaller than the outside diameter of the-nozzle, and consequently it not only closes the throat or pipe 0 around the nozzle and prevents leakage in case the pipe O should become choked, but such packing forms a yielding resistance device, which to a slight degree impedes the tilting of the basin upon its pivots and prevents it from dropping'b ack upon the slaband beingbroken after it has. been tilted. I do not here make any claim to this packing, as it is claimed in my application, Serial No. 259,958, filed January 6,1888.

At the upper edge of the basin B, Ihave shown a rim or head I), from which the nozzle B leads, and which serves to conceal this nozzle from view at the top of the basin. At the side on which is the nozzle B the rim or beadb is open, as shown at b and the side of the basin is flared slightly or has its wall curved at b to the discharge-nozzle B, as shown in Fig. 2. To prevent breakage of the basin bydropping upon the slab, I may likewise insert in the bottom thereof plugs b of india-rubber or similar packing material, as shown in Fig. 1 and by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

In Fig. 1 the discharge pipe or throat Odelivers into a pail D, which, as here represented, rests upon a tilting platform E, This By means of a weight e which platform E is balanced, so that it will sustain the pail D in an elevated position until such pail has received a predetermined volume of slops, which will not overflow it, through the hole in its side which receives the throat or pipe 0. As soon, however, as the pail D has received such definite volume of slops, its weight will overcome the balance applied to the platform E, and the platform will descend to the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Connected with the platform E is an upwardly-extending rod F, the upper portion f of which works through an opening a in the slab or stand-top A and comes directly under the basin, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

' Therefore, when the platform E is tilted by the weight in the pail, the stop-rod f is raised against the under side of the basin, and thereafter stops or prevents the tilting of the basin to discharge any more slops until the pail has been removed and emptied.

In order to hold the platform in the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1,with the stop-rod f raised to lock the basin even after the pail D has been removed and until it has been emptied and replaced, I may employ a spring catch or look g. (Shown in Fig. 1.) As the platform E descends, it pushes aside this spring-catch g, which afterward snaps over the upper edge of the platform, and thereafter holds the platform depressed and the stop-rod f elevated until the emptied pail is replaced and the platform intentionally released.

The construction shown in Fig. 3 is similar to that before described, save that the discharge throat or pipe C constitutes the upwardly-extending branch of a trap O, which surmounts the soil-pipe C and therefore in the construction shown in Fig. 3 the slop-pail D and its balancing-platform are not employed.

I am aware that before my invention a washbasin has been pivoted in an open hopper or sink provided with a discharge-pipe leading from its bottom, and I do not claim such a construction as of my invention. According to my invention the basin is pivoted in a position above the slab 0r stand-top, and discharges its contents through a nozzle B',which works through an opening in the slab or stand-top and into a discharge throat or passage when the basin is tilted.

I have obtained United States Letters Patent, dated December 20, 1887, No. 375,068, in which I show a basin or bowl from which extends a discharge-nozzle and which is mounted on pivots or trunnions, so that it maybe tilted to discharge through said nozzle into a trap or pipe. I do not herein claim, broadly, anything claimed therein.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a top or slab provided with an opening, of a basin pivoted above the top or slab and having a curved discharge-nozzle working through said opening, a discharge -pipe in which said nozzle works, a tilting platform, a stop, and a connection between said tilting platform and stop, whereby when the platform occupies one position the rocking of the basin will be prevented, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a top or slab provided with an opening, of a basin pivoted above the top or slab and having a curved discharge-nozzle working through said opening, a discharge-pipe below said slab, a tilting platform, and a rod constituting a stop connected with said tilting platform and preventing the movement of the basin in one direction, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with a slab or standtop and the discharge throat orpipe presented at an opening therein, of the pivoted basin B and its discharge-nozzle B, the balancingplatform E and the stop-rod f operated thereby, and a lock with which the platform automatically engages in descending and which serves to lock theplatforin with the stop-rod in an elevated position, substantially as specified.

PHILIP G. IIUBERT. Vitnesses:

FREDK. IIAYNEs, ARTHUR H. GAMBLIN. 

